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When you're not at home, many worries may start to crowd your mind. Did I turn the coffee maker off?
Did I lock the door? With a smart home, you can keep all of these worries off.
A smart home is a home with a communication network. This network connects devices (裝置), such as lights and TV sets, and allows them to be controlled from far away through electrical wiring, mobile phone communication or WiFi over the Internet.
More and more people may start to consider owning a smart home, because it makes life much more convenient. It can help keep your room at a certain temperature. It can record what happens inside the home and send the video to your phone. When you are on vacation abroad, you can use a smart home controller to switch on or off the electricity when necessary. Some smart homes can receive a visitor, allowing him to come in and offering him a drink. They can even feed the cat and water the plants.
Besides, smart homes are easy to fix. Most smart home technology and devices are wireless and can be set up with a minimum of tools, using only the guiding information. When a problem appears, you can deal with it yourself without paying a professional.
However, for home-users, the smart home technology is far from perfect. It can be rather expensive to own the technology and the devices. Also, because the smart home system (系統(tǒng)) allows its owner to get home information from anywhere, it leaves the home easy to be attacked by hackers (黑客)，who may secretly use or change the information in the system.
Now, many scientists are excited at the future of smart home technology. Imagine being able to get fashion advice from your mirror, or receive food shopping suggestions from your refrigerator, while there are others who worry that those smart devices will make people lazier and lonelier. Whatever it is, one thing is for sure — smart home technology will change the way we live and work.
（1）What is a smart home?
A. It is a home with perfect environment.
B. It is a home with many smart robots.
C. It is a home with a communication network.
D. It is a home with smart people.
（2）What does the underlined word “it” refer to?
A. The problem.
B. The guiding information.
C. The smart home technology.
D. The money you pay.
（3）Which of the following is probably the writer's opinion?
A. People will become less happy in the future.
B. People's life style will be different in the future.
C. Mobile phones are the most important in smart homes.
D. Smart homes are much better than other smart systems.
（4）What is the passage about?
A.Science.
B.Family.
C.History.
D.Culture.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）C
（2）A
（3）B
（4）A
【解析】短文介紹了未來的智能家庭技術(shù)。
（1）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從A smart home is a home with a communication network.可知答案選C。
（2）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。it指的是前面的problem，故選A。
（3）細(xì)節(jié)推斷題。從最后一句Whatever it is, one thing is for sure — smart home technology will change the way we live and work. 可以推測(cè)出作者的態(tài)度是智能家庭技術(shù)會(huì)改變我們的工作與生活方式，故選B。
（4）主旨概括題。短文主要介紹了智能家庭技術(shù)，屬于科學(xué)類的文章，故選A。